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Erica Sotello Paragraph writing assignment 2 Being a military brat, I 've traveled to many places; so choosing either the country or big city is pretty hard to choose from. I grew up and would love to live in San Antonio, Texas; which is a big city. My entire family lives there and a part of me wouldn 't want to live anywhere else so I could be as close as possible to them. At the age of 12 my family and I moved to Illesheim, Germany; which is in the middle of no where just like the country and there is nothing, but open fields. The thing I loved most about living in Germany was how quiet everything was, there was no loud traffic where we lived, the town and military base was so small that everyone knew everyone and we were all one big

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